iambornagainministries

February 2012

iambornagainministries — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 19:42:58 +0000

Praise Jesus!

Wow, what a great and busy month. We have been busy seeing fruit added to your account through many salvations here on Palawan. Also busy seeing treasures stored in heaven for you through thousands of nutritious meals provided to the children and gifts of love and compassion wrapped up in pretty Christmas paper expressing the love of Jesus carried from your hearts.

What a pleasure we have here in seeing a child’s eyes grow wide in wonder, surprise and joy as they open a present of love from you.

We find our self in amazement seeing the transformation of faces filled with hardship into one filled with innocence and joy.

Our eyes shed tears just thinking we are able to be a vessel of our Precious Jesus’ love for these children by giving a gift or filling a hungry belly. And if that is not enough, to then be allowed to share with them why people who they have never met give the gifts.

To share with these children how much our Father loves them that He touched the heart of strangers to be partakers of the abundant Harvest and Treasures in Heaven provided by our Heavenly Father.

What a blessed opportunity we have to use your gift as a focal point to share with the children the love of Jesus for them: That He died for them and if they believe and trust in Him they will experience life everlasting. Hallelujah, Praise Jesus! He is worthy to be praised.
Some of our readers may not know that we send out via e-mail various video clips of our ministry activities and you can enhance your understanding of our ministry in this way. Simply request to be added to the e-mail address list for videos.

REFUGE MINISTRY
          Praise Jesus! Pastor Osorio from the island of Cebu has come over to head up our ministry team. He is training the young workers through classes and some good old fashioned on-the-job training. Our ministry team has been doing a wonderful job and Pastor Osorio adds his special maturity and wisdom to the mix.
          The Saturday morning children ministry has 55 to 75 kids every Saturday. With so many coming we are now dividing them into the 12 tribes of Israel and they will participate in the various activities as a tribe. For the first seven weeks 25 of the kids have perfect attendance.
          We now have 10 to 12 youth coming to our newly started youth group. Youth are ages thirteen to twenty. They are now preparing to sing praise and dance to the Lord as well as developing a drama team to go on our outreaches in the future. Three days a week the youth meet and practice after Pastor Ossorio shares the word with them.

SUNDAY SERVICES
Two weeks ago Pastor Osorio started a Sunday service. To date three adults, seven youth, and 18 children are attending.
Pastor Osorio has been a blessing for me as he has continued training Mark and the others. We still have prayer meeting every day, so send any prayer requests. Please be in prayer with us as we start full ministry here in a place where there is no church: Truly a pioneering work.

REFUGE HOUSE
Due to Pastor Osorio being here I have been able to spend more time concentrating on building the Refuge, which is coming along little by little.
As I write this, our dormitory construction has temporarily stopped as we try to locate a source of fine sand needed in the plaster mix. We are working on the supply of electricity to the main building and finishing up the small details of electrical work in the building. It will be a day of praise when we are able to pack away the extension cords. What a joy to see the vision from our Precious Lord taking physical form.

DISCIPLESHIP AND FEEDING PROGRAMS
All of the schools are doing fine and learning every week more about Jesus! Again Pastor Osorio is overseeing this. We currently have feeding programs once or twice per week in five schools providing a nutritious meal and time in teaching the children about Jesus. In addition we have a feeding program in two tribal areas on a weekly basis as well as our Saturday morning bible study at the Refuge House.

We ask all of you to please pray with us for the provisions to continue and expand this wonderful opportunity to disciple and feed hungry children! God Bless You!

CHRISSY- SPONSORSHIP FOR SCHOOLING
Chrissy (Maricris) is doing very well and has high praises from her teachers. She wants to learn very much and is enthusiastic in doing her studies, her chores and working in the ministry on weekends. We hope and pray she will be the first of many we can help with schooling. Please pray for additional sponsors for others that desire to continue their education.

PERSONAL NOTE
As mentioned before, we are a pioneering church in an area with no church. We cherish, covet and desire your prayers. We most certainly stand in need of the prayers of the righteous. As we continue to build and complete dormitories our ministry will expand here.

Please join us in prayer for all the ministries as we start discipling new believers to be rooted and grounded in the Word of God. Later as we expand to a seniors, men, women and couples meetings we are in great need of prayer.
A very heartfelt Thank you for making this year’s Christmas a true blessing to hundreds of children.

We Love You, God Bless You!
With tearful joy and love, Thank You,

Harrell and Lolitia

PRAISE JESUS!

Harrell Hemingway

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January 2012

iambornagainministries — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:14:32 +0000

Praise Jesus!

Wow! It is 2012, a New Year, and closer to our precious Lord Jesus returning for us to be with HIM! What a wonderful day that will be!

CHRISTMAS GIFTS The children’s Christmas gifts have arrived. Praise Jesus! We will be giving gifts and sharing Jesus most of this month. We will be sending video clips, by e-mail of the gift giving to show you a flavor of the wonderful ministry this offers to the children and their families.
We praise Jesus and thank our Father in Heaven for the love and compassion of Jesus in you to give presents to these beautiful children who may have never had a gift. It is such a blessing to see their eyes open with surprise and see the joy, smiles, excitement and thankfulness when they open their gift. This is always a great time as we not only share Jesus with the kids but with their families as well.

KID’S BIBLE STUDY Praise Jesus! So far we have had between 60 to 75 kids each week at our Kid’s Bible Study. It is going really well even though we are a little limited on what we can do because of the construction under way at the refuge property. We will be purchasing some much needed tables and chairs this month. This will be a great blessing so the kids won’t have to sit on the floor to eat and participate in the other activities during our weekly bible study. Our team is learning and improving each week. As we learn, improve and be faithful in this we know that our Lord will enlarge our border. Our Precious Jesus has already brought several youth to watch the kids bible study and we have involved them in helping each week. They really enjoy helping and now are coming during the week to practice for the Saturday ministry. I can see the start of a Youth Group. So please pray!

REFUGE HOUSE We have now transferred to the Refuge House. We do not have running water or permanent electricity at this point, but we do have an extension cord running from a temporary power source.

We have several building projects currently going on at the property:

1) We are needing toilet bowl, sink, shower fixtures, cabinets, etc in upstairs bathroom. The cost of this with labor is approx. $500.

2) We are putting a 30’ x 12’ roof on the porch with an expected cost of $650 for lumber, roofing, nails, sealer, cement for columns, and labor.

3) Also this month we will be ready to put the 30’ x 16’ roofing on our first dormitory building and bathroom. Lumber, roofing, nails, sealer, labor etc is roughly $800.

4) Later in the month we hope to start hooking up electricity and installing an electric water pump with pressure tank then running water lines.

5) By the end of the month we expect to have security bars for all windows.

Please join with us in prayer that our precious Lord will secure the provisions for these projects. Until we get the dormitories and rooms finished, some of the girls will sleep in the down stairs kitchen. The boys will sleep in the bamboo bodega. Lolita and I will sleep in the upstairs bedroom and Showney (Shawn) will sleep upstairs in the living area. We praise our Father for His faithfulness as we continue to see His Vision for this refuge to become a Praise on the earth to Him.

SPONSORSHIP Maricris (Chrissy) has been blessed with a sponsor for schooling. She is attending school and doing very well

We have other young people who would like to come and be a part of doing the Lord’s work here at the Refuge.

Some are from the Islands of Mindanao, Cebu and Bohol. Most are living in extreme poverty but have found the answer to overcoming; that being Jesus our Savior.

In the event our Lord speaks to you about this, please e-mail me at h_bornagain@yahoo.com and I will call to discuss this with you.

PERSONAL NOTE We have no Internet access at the Refuge. We have tried many different things but still no Internet. Please be patient with me in answering e-mails. We are praying for a solution to this great inconvenience. My heart is overwhelmed with praises to our Father for you. As I opened the boxes of gifts to the children I could not help but experience such a powerful feeling of your love and compassion that you have from our precious Lord Jesus!

As I took the gifts from the boxes I could see your face with such warm caring love, with such compassion and tenderness, with so much joy to help these beautiful sweet children here in Palawan.

Our Father will reward you well with many treasures in heaven and will be so pleased as hundreds of children will praise Jesus; thanking our Father for you as I also praise Jesus and thank our Father for You!

Be blessed and highly favored this year in Jesus name!

Thank You! We love you! Harrell & Lolita